This article discusses how to use procrastination productively. It suggests setting up less painful tasks that are still productive to do instead of doing nothing when procrastinating. As an example, it notes that reading is less dreadful than writing, so allowing oneself to procrastinate by reading instead of writing is still being productive. The article encourages identifying tasks that give a feeling of procrastination and using that time for something else that is also productive.

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This Will Make You a More Productive
Procrastinator
How to do other stu while being productive
Lorenz Duremdes, Polymath
Dec 5 · 2 min read
ow, the title sounds a little bit ironic, namely the part about “Doing
other stuff”, but I am dead serious.N

3. It has been shown by research that just thinking about an activity you don’t
want to do raises the activity in the insular cortex, a brain region involved in
pain.
Now, in order to use procrastination in our advantage, we can try to set up a
less “painful” task that is still productive. Instead of procrastinating and
doing nothing productive, now we at least do something productive.
A very simple example of mine revolves around writing and reading. I like
to write and read, but I absolutely dread to start such a process. Writing,
however, seems to be more “dreadful” than reading, probably because it
requires a lot more thinking and energy. So what do I do? I allow myself to
procrastinate by doing something else: reading. Maybe not exactly what I
have planned, but it’s still productive.
Again to clarify, starting a process usually is the most “painful” part. After a
minute or so, the pain usually goes away.
What are some things giving you the feeling of procrastination? And how
can you use that to your advantage to do something else that’s also
productive?
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